Police arrest 16 in ongoing warrant sweep
By Robyn Moormeister
Staff Writer, robynm@theunion.com
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1:10 p.m. PT May 7, 2008
Thirteen people have been arrested and three people have turned themselves in as part of today’s county-wide warrant sweep, sheriff’s officials said.
Officers with the Nevada County Sheriff’s office, the Nevada City Police Department, the CHP, the Grass Valley Police Department Truckee Police Department and the Nevada County Probation Department began searching at 8 a.m. today for 689 people with warrants for their arrests.
Of the top ten people wanted by the sheriff’s office, one was arrested at about 9 a.m.
David Williams, 61 was located at a home in Grass Valley he shares with his ex-wife Yong Slape.
Slape said she did not know Williams had warrants for his arrest.
When Williams saw his picture in the newspaper this morning with a story announcing the sweep, he had meant to turn himself in, she said.
Several of the people arrested told police the same thing, said Nevada County Sheriff's Lt. Frank Koehler.
Williams was wanted for two charges of stalking and violation of a protective order, police said.
“(Williams) gets confused,” Slape said. “He takes too much medication.”
Williams takes medication for a heart problem and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Slape said.
A probation officer brought Williams’ medication to the jail, so he could have access to it.
Several of the addresses police checked this morning turned out to be fake, or the wanted person had moved away years ago, police said.
Police plan to continue the sweep until 5 p.m. today, Koehler said.
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